Association of Patients’ Geographic Origins with Viral Hepatitis Co-infection Patterns, Spain

Abstract

To determine if hepatitis C virus seropositivity and active hepatitis B virus infection in HIV-positive patients vary with patients’ geographic origins, we studied co-infections in HIV-seropositive adults. Active hepatitis B infection was more prevalent in persons from Africa, and hepatitis C seropositivity was more common in persons from eastern Europe.

Keywords

• viruses
• transients
• migrants
• hepatitis B
• hepatitis C
• HIV